Rumi: Sorrow Prepares You for Joy

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

― Rumi

David Richo: When We Feel Unsafe

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, 

we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness 

in those we will meet in the future.

― David Richo
 

Thích Nhất Hạnh: Joy

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, 

but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

David Richo: Our Wounds

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Our wounds are often the openings 

into the best and most beautiful part of us.

― David Richo
 

David Richo: Tears

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what 

make us such endearing creatures.

― David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
 

Joseph Campbell: Where You Stumble

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover 

the treasures of life. Where you stumble,

there lies your treasure.

- Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell: Transformation

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and 

our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly 

heroic transformation of consciousness.

- Joseph Campbell

Rumi: When You Do Things From Your Soul

When you do things from your soul, you feel 

a river moving in you, a joy.
 

― Rumi

 

Michael Meade: When You Become Yourself

I don’t think some big idea is going to come along to save the world. 

Rather than the need to save the whole world the real work of 

humanity may be to find the roots of wholeness within each individual. 

The only way to be safe in troubled times is to live a whole life.

 

 When you become yourself, 

you are benefiting everyone else.

 

- Michael Meade 

 

Michael Meade: Our Genius

The gifts are near the wounds. 

In order to get to the gifts you have to go near the wounds. 

Our genius is hiding behind our wounds.

 

- Michael Meade